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Why I can’t get excited by science
God knows why, but I found myself browsing that Humans of New York website yesterday. Terrible site. It’s basically emotional…
Let’s have a welcome home parade for our terrorists
The Whitlam government’s decision to lay out the welcome mat to communists we had been fighting in Vietnam for almost…
The dangerous narcissism of Earth Hour
Around this time in March each year, millions of people in developed countries spend 60 minutes of their lives reeling…
Time to get tough on business-union sleaze
Nearly sixteen months after Dyson Heydon handed down his final report following the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption, Malcolm…
Property management, Greens-style
Now and again the world gets a real life opportunity to catch a glimpse what would happen if the inmates…
We have democratised censorship
The “Infidel” Ayaan Hirsi-Ali is coming to Australia on a speaking tour in April and she will be exercising her…
Clickbait feminism and the war on choice
TRIGGER WARNING: Mansplaining. Women can’t seem to catch a break these days. As if dealing with the catcallers, creeps and…
The abolition of women
I’m a bit turned-around on a rather major point of public discourse, dear reader, and am hoping you might walk…
Don’t let the left con you over 18C’s “protections”
Following a long campaign the government is finally moving to reform Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, a legal provision…
Like it or not, coal is still king
On Wednesday, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and CoalSwarm released the 2017 edition of Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal…
Go home, Fairfax, you’re drunk
From The Age website, earlier this evening. As John McEnroe used to say: “You cannot be serious!” Got something to…
What Twitter teaches us about the left and 18C
There’s been plenty written about 18C in the past few months with many media organisations and personalities coming out strongly…
There’s no place for gender politics in mental health care, Julia
In a move that has left many jaws on the floor, and steam blasting out of ears, former prime minister…
18c: not perfect, but a pretty good start
The Turnbull government’s proposed changes to section 18c don’t go all the way, but they’re a pretty good start. Yesterday, Prime…
The terrible truth about Earth Hour revealed
The Vocal website probably doesn’t figure large in Spectator readers’ minds. Indeed, it doesn’t figure large at all. It’s not…
Our failing political class
Too many problems in modern Australia country have been either created by our ruling political class or made significantly worse by…
Malcolm’s malaise
No one doubts Malcolm Turnbull is intelligent. But is he smart? Some commentators attribute the government’s popularity malaise to some…
Blessed are those who don’t give a s***, for they shall inherit the Earth
On the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald (of course), an ANU climate scientist (of course), Sophie Lewis, agonises whether…
Please explain?
From The Age website this evening. It’s clearly all got too much for the poor petals. They’ve cracked under the…
Market economist confidently predicts direction of white noise process
Sydney-based market economist Nathan Hadley has confidently predicted a strong week ahead for pound sterling in the face of overwhelming…
Bannon 2024
BOSTON, UNITED STATES — The House Freedom Caucus is up in arms about President Trump’s Obamacare reform bill. While he…
Alive but not alive
CEO Greg Hywood insists the print editions of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will continue for a while…
In praise of the grande dame
Last week I attended an event in Brisbane that brought out lovers of art, local personalities, philanthropists, and many considered…
Earth has not anything to show more fair…
Over at Breitbart’s London Bureau, there’s a roughish, floppy-haired giant of a fogey named Oliver J.J. Lane. Red-pants’d and boater-hat’d,…
A glass half-full
One of my first authentic Australian ‘cultural’ experiences, years before I made it my home, was Barry Humphries’ good mate…
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